Top Chef Masters Recap: The Tribe Has Spoken

Top Chef

By MisRed | Thursday, August 16, 2012 | 7:56 pm | 19 Comments
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Welcome to the Episode 4!    Last week Mark Gaier was sent packing for his lackluster scallops cooled Teppanyaki style.  He left his partner Clark behind.  And Art won lasts week’s elimination challenge, gaining ultimate redemption for cake-gate 2012.


Feast your eyes on this…

Speaking of cake- beautiful cupcake Curtis Stone is already in the kitchen awaiting the arrival of the Chefs.  


All by myself….

Curtis asks Clark how he feels today?  Clark says he has mixed feeling continuing on in the competition without Mark.  Well, it had to happen sometime.  It’s not called Top Domestic Partnership- which I’m sure they would win, that is, if the Manzo Brothers weren’t in the running.

The Quickfire Challenge is upon us.  Hot Stone unveils a gigantic Salad Bar, containing 52 basic ingredients.  


This thing needs a sneeze guard

Their challenge is to make a spectacular salad.  Thierry notes, salad seems easy, but it’s one of the most difficult things.  Did you ever notice, salad is ALWAYS better when someone else makes it?   


Eating salads helps me keep my girlish figure

Curtis, cryptically says “This salad bar is as big as a whale and you have 8 minutes to set sail.”  (Yeah, I know the B-52s are on this episode, well, half of the B52s anyway.)

Thierry tells Curtis that his watch must be broken because they are supposed to have 20 minutes- not 8!!

Time starts and everyone rushes to the salad bar.  Except Patricia.  She takes her mole to the pantry to get the best oils and vinegars.  “Everyone always rushes for the mise en place…”


I once made a salad for Lady Gaga in 7 minutes!

Art is making watermelon soup with a cucumber, tomato and pomegranate salad.
Chris is careful of overdressing his salad.
Kerry is making Salade Russe.  Typical Salade Russe consists of diced cold potatoes, carrots, and peas, dressed with mayonnaise.  But Kerry is using Yogurt instead.
Lorena is grilling with, like, 1 minute left.


I always make grilled cauliflower at Taco Bell

Time is up, as Clark admires his dish, he says “Mark would be proud.”  Uh, he didn’t die, he’s just in a decompression suite down the hall.  Jeesh.  Drama Queen.


We seem to be short two 52s, well, three if you count the one who is already out of business :(

Half of the B-52s come in- Fred Schneider and Kate Pierson.  Ohhh, it makes sense to Art because they are “well known vegetarians.”   Keith and Cindy must be down at the Love Shack or out looking for Quiche Lorraine.  Stone Cold Fox has all of the salads set up and they taste them one by one.  They have some stand-out comments.  Chris’s Egg, Radish and Romaine Salad with soft herbs is deemed “under-dressed and bland.”  Yikes.  Fred loves the tacky Chinese noodles in Patricia’s creation of chopped salad with Yuzu dressing and crunchy Chinese noodles.
Gotta love a backhanded compliment.

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19 Comments

  1. 1
    Detinha
    Posted August 16, 2012 at 10:31 pm

    MisRed, I love your recaps, just wish you’d post more pictures of the foods!

    That place is beautiful, but I hate these outdoor cooking! Do they have a place to wash their hands?

  2. 2
    awfuleyebrow
    Posted August 17, 2012 at 4:05 am

    I actually watched this show at it’s regular east coast airtime, complete with commercials. I almost never do that. I am glad that I did so this time. I enjoyed the episode, but for me the most entertaining part was a commercial that aired early in the episode. It was for Ragu pasta sauce. It was a tragic drama about a boy who accidently sees his parents having sex, it features a tragic country song and a happy ending shot of the boy smothering his pain by eating a big plate of pasta. I still don’t want to eat Ragu or listen to country music, but that commercial literally made me LOL.

  3. 3
    Wasabipeas wasabipeas
    Posted August 17, 2012 at 5:34 am

    Dilbert and Pocohontas! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

  4. 4
    MisRed MisRed
    Posted August 17, 2012 at 6:39 am

    @Detinha thanks for saying something- I struggle sometimes with what pictures to grab. (And grabbing pix from this show can be difficult due to evil Bravo…) So if you guys want more food pix- you shall have them next week!! I love the plates too, but I’m a chef /food geek, so I don’t like to assume that everyone is that interested. But I’m glad you are and I will post more food pix.

    Also… cooking outside- a health inspector should have come to inspect that site. I’m sure they did to get permits, etc. But you are legally required (at least you are in my state) to have a hand washing station with HOT water and a sanitizing bucket- which I did see in the episode (it’s a square red bucket).

  5. 5
    Luv2Knit
    Posted August 17, 2012 at 8:36 am

    Great recap!! Luv the Dilbert and PocohOntas shot!!! LOL!!! I’d like to see more food pics too.

  6. 6
    detinha
    Posted August 17, 2012 at 11:30 am

    Thank you, MisRed! You rock! :)

  7. 7
    Lalaluvr
    Posted August 17, 2012 at 6:36 pm

    Enjoy reading your recaps, love your Dilbert and Pocohontas . I wanted to windmill slappy hands Art and his TacoBell Queen.

    Thanks MisRed. :)

  8. 8
    chaosbutterfly
    Posted August 18, 2012 at 1:05 am

    @awfuleyebrow, I live for that commercial. The look of horror on the little boy’s face and the way that he’s willing to sit down to dinner with his parents like nothing happened because of the Ragu always brings me to tears. Mostly because I too am a fat kid who will forgive a multitude of sins in exchange for something tasty.

    I think I have a little chef crush on Chris. I didn’t really like him too much in the beginning, but he’s definitely grown on me. I also want to put Takashi in my pocket.
    Lorena is so annoying though….the first time I met her was on the next great american restaurant and I wanted to put my foot through my tv every time she spoke. This is still true even unto today. Like damn son, take a chill pill. She and Art need to bring it down a notch or several or one hundred.

    Love is truly bacon.

  9. 9
    J-Mo J-Mo
    Posted August 18, 2012 at 1:41 am

    Hey MisRed, a suggestion: BravoTV.com (generally) posts all the pictures of the food for every episode (it’s what I use for regular Top Chef), that way you don’t have to struggle to get a clear picture out of those annoying tracking shots they make where they sail over the dish like it is floating by. Hope that’s helpful!

    love, J-Mo :)

  10. 10
    Detinha
    Posted August 18, 2012 at 3:38 am

    YAY! J-Mo to the rescue! I remember those pics from TC and your hilarious descriptions!! Can’t wait for the new season! You both rock!

  11. 11
    Val Detinha
    Posted August 19, 2012 at 12:12 pm

    RE: Washing hands, I cringe when I see some people on TV (chefs or wannabes) touching meat, touching the salt..even the chefs that I love, like Ming and Jacques Pepin are guilt of that! And don’t even let me start on Rachael Ray and her dirty fingernails! Eeww!

  12. 12
    sagittariuskim sagittariuskim
    Posted August 19, 2012 at 12:25 pm

    Seeing people touching food doesn’t bother me, since everybody touches food when cooking.

    I don’t have much to say about this episode. I think the right people won. And the right person went home. I do remember being nervous about how close to cliff they were when watching. Like Takashi, me and heights aren’t the closest friends.

  13. 13
    Val Detinha
    Posted August 19, 2012 at 3:15 pm

    Oh, I meant touching meat and not washing their hands before proceeding touching everything else, like the salt…when I’m cooking I wash my hands every time is possible, so I can’t imagine cooking in a place without a sink and a faucet.

  14. 14
    crankyguy crankyguy
    Posted August 19, 2012 at 3:31 pm

    I realized that I would rather cooks touch food with bare hands that are washed often than with gloves after watching a “sandwich artist” at Subway make a sub with the same gloves that he wore when he took somebody else’s money and made change at the cash register.

  15. 15
    Val Detinha
    Posted August 19, 2012 at 4:20 pm

    Oh yeah, that defeats the purpose of gloves, doesn’t? I don’t mind the bare hands, what makes me crazy is dirty hands cross contaminating everything! After touching meat they should wash their hands.

  16. 16
    LAC LAC
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 11:05 am

    MisRed, thank you for the wonderful recaps and the willingness to put more food porn in.

    I am with Takashi on the heights thing, especially this sadistic (if visually stunning) trend of glass walkways. Of course, I am the person who had a panic attack in the head of the statute of liberty a number of years ago (“Oh, my God! We are in her head! I see her nose!!!”)

    I am not looking forward to the Art and Christopher fireworks.

    @Detinha – word to that sentiment!!

  17. 17
    MoHub
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 12:51 pm

    My dream is to see Lorena’s chyron identify her restaurant not as Lorena Garcia Cocina but as Taco Bell. That alone would make it worth watching her.

    And she and Art need to get a room.

  18. 18
    kloewent
    Posted August 29, 2012 at 1:47 pm

    I saw another commercial recently involving parental sex that was just gross. Mr. Jack in the Box is playing scrabble with his hot wife and makes up a George Bush type word for his new food. They argue for awhile, then he takes the points, then she writes “No Nookie” with her tiles. Just the thought of having any kind of nookie with JIB with that big head is disturbing. Plus Mr. JIB is married to a JIB Shiksa, I am sure his parent would prefer a girl with a big white head!!! I remember when they did one with the whole family and I thought about having to give birth to that head, YIKES! I guess I am too literal.

  19. 19
    timgunnssister timgunnssister
    Posted August 30, 2012 at 12:11 pm

    Ah, fast (and not so fast) food workers and gloves. Too many of then seem to think the gloves are for THEIR safety and don’t realize that handling money, washing countertops/tables then making food ALL WITH THE SAME GLOVES ON kinda defeats the actual purpose of the gloves.

    And this is why we so rarely eat out.

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